Vending machine



Filed May 13, 1929 Gardonifilhcke WITNESS:

ATTORNEY Patented Apr. 14, 1931 UNETED STATES PATENT OFFICE VENDINGApplication filed May 13,

This invention relates to improvements in vending machines of thecharacter disclosed in my copending applications 362,069 and 362,070filed May 10, 1929, which have eventuated into patents 1,766,297 and1,766,298.

The present invention, like the inventions disclosed in the applicationsreferred to, has for an object the provision of means to preventdelivery of an article before operation of the machine is completed, sothat the mechanism of the machine will be ready for the next operation,instead of being apparently inoperative due to the fact that the articlewas delivered and the mechanism stopped prior to the return of the partsto their normal positions.

Another object of the invention is the provision of means of the abovecharacter which are simple, positive and durable in construction andoperation, and may be used in connection with coin controlled vendingmachines.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention further includesthe following novel features and details of construction, to behereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanyingdrawing and pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawing Figure 1 is a sectional. view illustrating the invention,with the parts in normal position.

Figure 2 is a like view showing the position of the parts during theoperation of ejecting an article from the magazine.

Referring to the drawing in detail wherein like characters of referencedenote corresponding parts, the reference character indicates a housingwithin which is arranged a delivery compartment 11, the latter beingprovided with a discharge outlet 12. The magazine of the machine isindicated at 13 and is designed to contain articles 14; for transfer tothe delivery compartment through the operation of ejecting meanshereinafter described.

The bottom of the magazine is provided with a slot 15 which extendsthrough a ledge 16, the latter supporting the articles 14. This ledge 16extends part way across the bottom of the magazine so that an opening 17is pro- MACHINE 1929. Serial NO. 362,636.

vided for the passage of articles from the magazine. A spring arm 18yieldingly resists the discharge of articles from the maga- Z1118.

Slidingly mounted within the housing 10 as indicated at 19 is a plate20. This plate is normally positioned beneath the magazine and isprovided with an operating rod 21, whereby the plate may be movedhorizontally.

Carried by the plate is an ejector element 22, which, when the rod ismoved inward, enters the slot 15 and engages the lowermost article orarticles to force the same through the opening 17. As the plate 20 isarranged in advance of the ejector element 22, an article forced fromthe magazine will fall and remain upon this plate during the continuedforward movement of the plate.

In order to deliver the article to the operator of the machine the platemust be retracted or moved in a reverse direction. When the plate is somoved, the article will engage a member 23 which depends from the bottomof the magazine 13 intothe path of the package and the latter will beforced from the plate when the plate reaches its limit ofoutwardmovement as shown by the dotted lines in Figure 1 of the drawing, andwill fall into the delivery compartment 11.

The invention is susceptible of various changes in its form, proportionsand minor details of construction and the right is herein reserved tomake such changes as properly f: .ll within the scope of the appendedclaims.

Having described the invention what is claimed is:

1. In a vending machine, a housing, a dclivery compartment within thehousing, an article magazine, an ejector, means to operate the ejectorto force articles from the magazine when the ejector is moved in onedirection, a plate supported by said means and located in advance of theejector, and movable therewith to receive such articles.

and means located in the path of the ejected n articles to remove thesame from the plate, as the latter is being returned to its normalposition.

2. In a vending machine, a housing, a delivery compartment within thehousing, an

article magazine, an ejector, means to operate the ejector to forcearticles from the magazine When the ejector is 'moved in one direction,a plate supported by said means and located in advance of the ejector,and movable therewith to receive the ejected ar ticles, and meansprojecting downwardly from the magazine in the path of the articles toforce the same fromthe plate as the latter is being returned to itsnormal position.

3. In a vending machine, a housing, a delivery compartment Within thehousing, an article magazlne open at 1ts bottom, a slotted ledgeextending partly across the bottom, a rod slidable Within the housingbeneath the magazine, an ejector rising from the rod'and adapted to passthrough the slot of the ledge to engage and singly remove an articlefrom the magazine, a plate carried by the inner end of the rod andlocated with relation to the ejector, to receive the article ejectedfrom the magazine, and a member depending from the free edge of theledge and located in the path of said article to remove the same fromthe plate as the latter is being returned to its normal position. 7

4c. In a vending machine, a housing, a delivery compartment Within thehousing, an

article magazine open at its bottom, a slotted ledge projecting part Wayacross the bottom, a resilient element depending from the magazine andextending below the bottom thereof, an ejector,means cooperate theejector to force articles from the magazine against the tension ofsaid'resilient element, When the ejector is moved in one direction,means operable with the ejector to receive such articles, and meanslocated in the pathof the ejected articles to remove the same "from thearticle receiving means as the latter is being returned torts normalposition.

In testimony whereof I atlix my signature.

' GORDON B. MAGKE.

